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Facebook Hides Behind Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook’s motto to connect the world is failing, and Zuckerberg isn’t helping

April 17, 2018 • by Roshni Majumdar

The blue-and-white halls of my newsfeed on Facebook go on and on -- the memes, the music videos, the news, the free events, and the pictures from parties and holidays. They don’t break for a second. There are virtually no signs or outcries of the damning data-breach that has engulfed ...

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Roseanne, NFL Cheerleaders, and Instant Pot

Past Present Episode 125

April 11, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil debate the return of the television series Roseanne, the unfair treatment of NFL cheerleaders, and the sudden popularity of the Instant Pot.

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Roseanne, NFL Cheerleaders, and Instant Pot

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Cambridge Analytica, the Austin Serial Bomber, and Stanford’s “Manel”

Past Present Episode 124

March 28, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the historical significance of Cambridge Analytica and its relationship with Facebook, a serial bomber in Austin, and an all-white, all-male history conference at Stanford.

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Cambridge Analytica, the Austin Serial Bomber, and Stanford’s “Manel”

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Democratic Wins, Twitter, and The Snowy Day

Past Present Episode 107

November 23, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia debate the Democratic wins in the recent off-year elections, the doubling of Twitter’s character limit, and the release of a postage stamp based on Ezra Jack Keats’ The Snowy Day.

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Democratic Wins, Twitter, and The Snowy Day

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Will the Internet be the Death of Metaphysics?

Thinking Gianni Vattimo through Black Mirror, the ‘Nosedive’ Episode

August 29, 2017 • by Alkim Erol

The philosopher Gianni Vattimo formulated his hermeneutics on ‘Weak Thought’, in his work Art’s Claim to Truth (1979). Weak Thought is “nothing other than the knowledge, acceptance, and recognition that philosophy, after the deconstruction of metaphysics, cannot capture the ultimate essence of its objects but must comply with multiplicity of ...

Will the Internet be the Death of Metaphysics?

Education

The New Public Sphere

Invisible Actors, Intangible Codes

May 18, 2017 • by Alysha Khodaiji

A well-informed public is one of the key elements for the functioning of a democracy. However we must acknowledge the paradoxical nature of the present public that is global in size but limited to conversing through a computer screen. These days it seems a well-informed public is a public that ...

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Dividuals and Democratic Data

Are we more than just data points?

May 16, 2017 • by Michelle Mason

ENFJ. Those are the results from the Myers-Briggs personality test I took online. The option to share my results flashed on the screen and, with a click, just my 638 closest Facebook friends were able to see and like my results. At least that is what I thought. Big Data has ...

Philosophy

What Happened at Hypatia?

Peer Review, Academic Kinship, and Social Media

May 12, 2017 • by Meryl Altman, Timothy Burke and Claire Potter

In response, over 500 feminists -- a mix of senior, untenured and independent scholars, as well as graduate and a few undergraduate students, signed a letter demanding that Hypatia retract Tuvel’s article. They argue that it “falls short of scholarly standards in various areas,” uses incorrect vocabulary, “deadnames” Jenner (refers ...